Generalization from tripartite to multipartite separability

Determine whether the holographic dual of relative entropy with respect to the set of $m$-partite separable states is governed, at leading order, by a minimal $m$-partition surface in the bulk, and whether the arguments established for tripartite separability extend to this setting.

Background

The paper proposes a bulk minimal tripartition surface as the geometric dual of the relative entropy of entanglement for a boundary tripartition. This raises the possibility that analogous geometric objects control relative entropies defined with respect to more general multipartite-separable state sets.

The authors explicitly formulate this extension as a conjecture and ask whether their tripartite arguments can be generalized to arbitrary numbers of parties.

References

A natural extension of our work is to consider the relative entropy with respect to the set of $m$-partite separable states. It is tempting to conjecture that the corresponding holographic dual is controlled by a minimal $m$-partition surface in the bulk. It would be interesting to determine whether the arguments developed here for tripartite separability admit such a generalization.

— Relative entropy of entanglement and tripartite minimal surface  (2609.38815 - Mori et al., 30 Sep 2026) in Section 7, paragraph “Multipartite generalization”